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Only What We Have
God requires of us only what we can afford...and that would be as valuable to Him as another person's gift, whether it be talent, time, money, property or energy, if it comes from the giver's heart.
Meditation:
Luke 21:1-4
"...'I tell you the truth...this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave the gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.'"
John 6:5-13
"...'Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?' He asked this only to test him... Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two fish, but how far will they go among so many?...Jesus then took the loaves and two fish, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish..."
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01-Jul-1999 |
No Condemnation....Just Love One night, I was exhausted and overburdened with a deep sense of guilt-false and real. Prayers could not be... |
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01-Feb-2001 |
My Cup Overflows Due to the breadth of its mouth, a sheep can only drink from a cup which is filled to its brim and overflowing.... |
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01-Jan-1999 |
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01-May-2004 |
Mother Prayed Thank You, Lord, for Mother who showed me how to pray! |
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01-Jun-2003 |
Moods The harmony within our inner and outer lives has been so damaged that when God intervenes with His healing grace,... |
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01-Apr-2004 |
Miracle Replayed O Lord, to watch You pick someone up from the broken world of abuse, neglect, rejection, addictions,... |
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01-May-1999 |
Love is Here to Bloom When Jesus comes to our home, He makes us bloom! Oh what hope, how different from previous gloom!... |
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28-Jan-2005 |
Love is Here to Bloom When Jesus comes to our home, He makes us bloom! Oh what hope, how different from previous gloom!... |
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28-Jun-2005 |
Love is Here to Bloom When Jesus comes to our home, He makes us bloom! Oh what hope, how different from previous gloom!... |
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01-Aug-2004 |
Long sight or Short sight If we are too spiritually long-sighted, we may fall on the steps before us. If we are too spiritually short-sighted,... |
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01-Dec-1999 |
Keep Your Roots Deep As we approach the beginning of the 21st century, how should we view earthly life and how should we conduct... |
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01-Apr-2002 |
Jesus' Second Prayer When Jesus prayed a second time in the Garden of Gethsemane, His prayer focus had shifted from the... |
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01-Apr-1999 |
JESUS IS ALIVE...TO LIVE FOREVER MORE! Paul wrote: "For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all...so from now on... |
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01-Mar-2002 |
Jesus Had Mixed Emotions P.S. Jesus, the Son of God and the Son of Man had mixed emotions like we have...but He did not allow those feelings... |
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01-Sep-2000 |
Jesus Dances? As 13 of us were worshipping the Lord in silence except for background instrumental music, He surprised me with... |
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01-Oct-2002 |
It’s Time to Move On To persuade someone to follow God's will can be really traumatic for the persuader, especially if he is of a... |
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01-Dec-2003 |
It Takes a Life-time To be born again in the Lord may just take a moment but to prepare to meet with Him face to face takes a life-time. |
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01-Aug-2002 |
Individualism in Exchange for Identity and Personality In any meaningful relationship, each person loses her husk of individualism but gains her identity as a human being... |
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01-Nov-1998 |
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01-Feb-2005 |
Ice Skating Father, watching the figure skating events of the 1992 XVIth Winter Olympiad on live telecast lifted my soul up... |
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